Thread: Happy Songs!

Pink Floyd - The Gold It's In The...
David Gilmour - Arnold Layne (w/ Rick Wright on vocals)
David Gilmour - This Heaven
Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Modest Mouse - Float On
Paul Simon - Father And Daughter
Pink Floyd - Pigs On The Wing, parts 1 and 2
Pink Floyd - Summer '68
Pink Floyd - Money
Pink Floyd - Eclipse
Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
Pink Floyd - Echoes (I mean, it isn't UNhappy... )
Pink Floyd - San Tropez
Pink Floyd - Biding My Time
Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam
Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar
The Who - Endless Wire
The Who - I Can't Explain
The Who - My Generation
The Who - Magic Bus
The Who - Summertime Blues (Live)
The Who - You Better You Bet

Good Weekend by Art Brut [from Bang Bang Rock & Roll LP]
Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys [from Smiley Smile LP]
Another Sunny Day by Belle & Sebastian [from The Life Pursuit LP]
At The Bottom of Everything by Bright Eyes [from I&#39;m Wide Awake, It&#39;s Morning LP] << strangely happy
Is This Love? by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah [from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah LP]
Summersong by The Decemberists [from The Crane Wife LP]
+81 by Deerhoof [from forthcoming Friend Opportunity LP]
No Cease Fires&#33; (Crimes Against The State of Our Love, Baby) by Destroyer [from City of Daughters LP]
Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips [from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots LP] <<could be sad I guess, I&#39;ve always though it&#39;s kinda happy.
Snails by The Format [from Dog Problems LP]
Ladyflash by The Go&#33; Team [from Thunder, Lightning, Strike LP]
Get Rhythm by Johnny Cash [from Get Rhythm single]
Montreal -40 by Malajube [from Trompe-L&#39;Oeil LP]
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel [from In The Aeroplane Over The Sea LP]
Walk In The Park by Oh No&#33; Oh My&#33; [from Oh No&#33; Oh My&#33; LP]
Sonic Bloom by The Polyphonic Spree [from Wait EP]
Step Aside by Sleater-Kinney [from One Beat LP]
The Way We Get By by Spoon [from Kill The Moonlight LP]
Someday by The Strokes [from Is This It? LP]
What I Got by Sublime [from Sublime LP]
I Was Born (A Unicorn) by The Unicorns [from Who Will Cut Our Hair When We&#39;re Gone? LP]
Surf Wax America by Weezer [from The Blue Album LP]
Good To Me by The White Stripes [from Seven Nation Army single]

neat idea lyla.

Pink Floyd? happy.

REM. Stand in the place where you live blah blah I don&#39;t know the title.
James - Laid



Mental block. Be back later.

Calling You- Aqua
Happy Boys and Girls- Aqua
Barbie Girl- Aqua
Dr. Jones - Aqua
Lollipop- Aqua
Roses Are Red- Aqua

Who Let The Dogs Ou- Baha Men

Blind lemon - no rain
finger eleven - one thing
oh... and I forgot... lynryd skynyrd - sweet home alabama
I could say a ton more but I don&#39;t feel like looking through my library

belle and sebastian: step into my office, baby

Originally Posted by Howetzer

REM. Stand in the place where you live blah blah I don&#39;t know the title. [/b]

Try "Stand"

Relient K has a fair amount of enjoyable songs:
"May the Horse be With You"
"Sadie Hawkins Dance"
"Mood Rings"
"Gibberish" - Yep, that&#39;s pretty much what it is. Amusing
"Marilyn Manson ate my Girlfriend" (I don&#39;t know if that&#39;s the title, but that&#39;s the main part of the chorus)

There are some more, but I can&#39;t think of them.

Originally Posted by Kyhaar

Calling You- Aqua
Happy Boys and Girls- Aqua
Barbie Girl- Aqua
Dr. Jones - Aqua
Lollipop- Aqua
Roses Are Red- Aqua[/b]

Back when I was a little girl, I used to be such an Aqua fan.

Seriously. It haunts me even now. The sheer cheesy lollipop-ness of all those songs rings in my head even now, with just song titles reminding me. "I&#39;m a barbie gurl, in a barbie wooo-ooor-orld&#33;"

I don&#39;t know whether to shudder, or to let out a nostalgic sigh...

Do we have an ambivolence smiley? <--I think that&#39;s the closes I&#39;m gonna come.

Originally Posted by The

Back when I was a little girl, I used to be such an Aqua fan.

Seriously. It haunts me even now. The sheer cheesy lollipop-ness of all those songs rings in my head even now, with just song titles reminding me. "I&#39;m a barbie gurl, in a barbie wooo-ooor-orld&#33;"

I don&#39;t know whether to shudder, or to let out a nostalgic sigh...

Do we have an ambivolence smiley? <--I think that&#39;s the closes I&#39;m gonna come.
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I like aqua&#33; For a class play I a singing "Calling You" Bubbly, happy brainwashing songs&#33;

BLink 182 are 100% upbeat, although theyre a bit... kind of loud for some people

Chelsea Dagger by the Fratellis is very cheerful and happy, although the subject isn&#39;t particularly.
The ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny - lemon demon - this makes me laugh every time

Try Cherry Roses by the Blublankers

Thank you everyone&#33;

Originally Posted by bradybaker

At The Bottom of Everything by Bright Eyes [from I&#39;m Wide Awake, It&#39;s Morning LP] << strangely happy
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I have no idea why I didn&#39;t include that&#33; I think it&#39;s my second favourite song... Well, in my top 5 for sure.

Ps: I&#39;ve just listened to Neutral Milk Hotel and I love their song&#33; Thanks very much again&#33;

Originally Posted by Lyla

Ps: I&#39;ve just listened to Neutral Milk Hotel and I love their song&#33; Thanks very much again&#33;
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I&#39;m glad you like it. That album is a modern classic, definitely one of my all time favorites. "Two-Headed Boy" and "Holland, 1945" are amazing pieces of songwriting.

I guess you have to add ..Don&#39;t worry be happy - of coarse I don&#39;t know the musician.

Bobby McFerrin&#33;

BOB MARLEY - DON&#39;T WORRY, BE HAPPY

Originally Posted by BrotherDown

BOB MARLEY - DON&#39;T WORRY, BE HAPPY
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Myth. Bobby McFerrin recorded "Don&#39;t Worry, Be Happy".

Wikipedia Link

Originally Posted by bradybaker

I&#39;m glad you like it. That album is a modern classic, definitely one of my all time favorites. "Two-Headed Boy" and "Holland, 1945" are amazing pieces of songwriting.
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I&#39;ll definitely check them out&#33;

Originally Posted by bradybaker

I guess you have to add ..Don&#39;t worry be happy - of coarse I don&#39;t know the musician.
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I don&#39;t know what&#39;s wrong with me, but whenever I&#39;m sad and hear this song I feel like jumping out the window.

Originally Posted by bradybaker

Myth. Bobby McFerrin recorded "Don&#39;t Worry, Be Happy".

Wikipedia Link
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Public Enemy Started it in their"Fight the Power," which featured the lyric, "&#39;Don&#39;t Worry Be Happy&#39; was a number one jam/Damn, if I say it you can slap me right here."

I&#39;m not sure if these are all &#39;happy&#39; songs, but they are upbeat and not pessimistic (most of my songs I keep are usually Gothic Rock, Rock, or songs in Japanese)-

Head Automatica- Beating Heart Baby

Head Automatica- Graduation Day

Crazy Town- Butterfly

I&#39;ll add in more if I find anymore songs while cleaning out my mp3 player

"Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy" from the Ren and Stimpy show is amazing.

I also like "I Be An Retarded" from They Might Be Giants.

I&#39;m surprised noone said Blind Melons "No Rain"

The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) -Peaches

Most anything from Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Most anything from Phish

Alot of the Ramones, I&#39;ll go with "Rockaway Beach"

I could name alot of The Aquabats songs but I&#39;ll go with "Super Rad", "Chemical Bomb" (wait for the chorus), "Play Dough", "Pizza Day", "Pool Party", "Lovers of Loving Love", and my the happiest song I know of, &#39;Red Sweater"

I&#39;ll stop there.

Edit: I forgot to metion DEVO&#33; Whip it&#33;

"Tacobel Canon" by Ratatat is my "happiest song." I know this is a weird choice, probably not many people have even heard of the song or the artist. For the longest time I couldn&#39;t decided whether it was the happiest song ever, saddest song ever, or both. But whenever I am feeling depressed, blue, down, or whatever, hearing this song immediately makes me happy or takes the sadness away. It changes my emotions and general outlook in a strangely powerful way, so I decided its the happiest. It&#39;s really weird and hard to explain, but for me, this song is "happiness" at its very core manifest in sound waves, so I can&#39;t help but feel better when I am sensing it.

Others that come close off the top of my head are Pachelbel&#39;s Canon in D and "Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson.

Originally Posted by BrotherDown

BOB MARLEY - DON&#39;T WORRY, BE HAPPY
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That&#39;s not Bob Marley&#39;s. You could be thinking of his song "Three Little Birds." That&#39;s definitely a happy song&#33;

"Don&#39;t worry
about a thing
cause every little thing
is gonna be alright"

Other happy songs are:

Wonderful World -- Horace Andy
I Can See Clearly Now -- Jimmy Cliff&#39;s version
Jammin&#39; and One Love -- Bob Marley
Reggae Got Soul and Sweet and Dandy -- Toots and the Maytals
Pas de Problemes -- Kana
Good Stuff and Dead Beat Club -- The B-52s
One -- U2
Honky Tonkin&#39; -- Hank Williams
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp -- Led Zepplin